[Gpg4win-devel] Putty and ECDSA support for gpg-agent in 2.0

[Werner Koch]

On Mon,  8 Jul 2013 10:23, bernhard at intevation.de said:

> TLA==Top level administrations?

Three Letter Agency which is a pun on Three Letter Acronym.

NSA, CIA, FBI, BKA, BND, MAD, KGB, MI6, and GCHQ to prove the exception.

> I tend to disagree, PKIX is there for a while whether I like it or not.
> In some circumstances it even allows for a better user experience as OpenPGP,

Right.  But do we really want to suggest the use of a system which makes
man in the middle attacks that easy.  At my RMLL talk I suggested the
use of S/MIME only if there is really no other way to send encrypted
data.  Everyone else shall use OpenPGP because OpenPGP gives more power
to the user.

> criticism of it, though. But this is no excuse to not document our software 
> as good as we can for the people that are stuck with x509 and PKIX for 

It is pretty well documented in the Compendium.  IT does not belong into
an installer.  Someone else already suggested that Kleo should provide
a first time installation assistant.  I agree with that.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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